Broad plans extension in Cambridge Center

Broad plans extension in Cambridge Center

The Broad Institute has begun planning for an extension on 75 Ames St., an open lot behind its central 7 Cambridge Center campus. In an e-mail addressed to members of the Broad community last Friday, Alan Fein, executive vice president and deputy director of the Broad Institute, said that three of Broad’s buildings — located at 320 Charles St., 301 Binney St., and 5 Cambridge Center — have leases which will expire in the next 3–4 years. According to the e-mail, the new building would serve to consolidate these existing buildings and would have more total space.

The e-mail invited members of the Broad community to three town hall meetings held March 7–8 with the architects of the new building to discuss “what works in [the] current space, in terms of architecture and design, and what can be improved upon.”